What a beautiful graphic the good folks at The Laurel Review made today for these lines from my poem, “Right Like Yellow Along a Banana,” which they were kind enough to publish in issue 49.2.
You can read the whole poem online HERE.
Author Archives: Christopher
“It Worked Out a Way to Survive” and “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” published at Hobart!
My poems “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” and “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” have just been published today online at Hobart! Thank you to Jessie Knoles and the rest of the Hobart staff!
Read ‘em HERE!
“It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” Accepted for the anthology Show Us Your Papers
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” will appear in the anthology Show Us Your Papers forthcoming from Main Street Rag. Thank you editors Wendy Scott Paff, Daniela Buccilli, and Cherise A. Pollard!
P.S. submissions are open until the end of August!
I’m Teaching a Poetry Workshop This Autumn at The Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching an 8-week poetry writing workshop called “Place and Poetic Practice” starting October 2, 2019 at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY.
Place and Poetic Practice with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00. 8 weeks, starting October 2. In this workshop we’ll discuss poetry that incorporates a sense of place to enchant and challenge the reader. We’ll use prompts and exercises drawn from our readings to inspire new writing. Required text: The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice, edited by Shara Lessley and Bruce Snider (Pleiades Press, 2018).
Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the winter class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
“I’m Back Here I’m Paddling Too” in Poetry Northwest!
Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Poetry Northwest‘s 60th anniversary issue, which contains my poem “I’m Back Here I’m Paddling Too,” along with so much delicious new poetry by so many amazing poets. Thank you Erin Malone, Aaron Barrell, Emily Pittinos, and the rest of the PN team!
“A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” and “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” Accepted at Hobart!
Delighted to learn that the good folks at Hobart have accepted my poems “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” and “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” for publication next month!
Our LiterarY Dinner!
Thank you to everyone who came to our LiterarY Dinner yesterday in support of the Arts Branch of the Syracuse YMCA. We’re overjoyed by the amount we raised! Thank you to our readers, Jessica Cuello and David Lloyd, and to Bob Early for your music. Having our backyard full of poetry, song, and fiction as the colors of the evening passed overhead… What a joy!
“It’s Something People in Love Do” Published in A Constellation of Kisses
What a delight to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in A Constellation of Kisses, the new anthology from Terrapin Books. Thank you so much to editor Diane Lockward. 100 poems about kissing, written by the likes of Kim Addonizio, Denise Duhamel, Jeffrey Harrison, Allison Joseph, David Kirby, Dorianne Laux…just to name just a very few. Yes please!
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference!
What an awesome, regenerative, inspiring week of talking about poems and creating new poems with these extraordinary writers, the members of my Generative Poetry Workshop at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference in Paul Smith’s College. Thank you thank you thank you everyone!
“If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” Accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology
Halfway into this amazing week teaching and talking writing at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, I’m delighted to learn that my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” has been accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology from New American Press!